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3 fHE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Thursday, December 22, 1949 In Mexico City there are no flies, insects or mosquitos. Another name for the swastika ! is fylfot. 0 . K f tlic I -7 yjL V and HAPPY NEW YEAR Your Patronage Ha Been Appreciated - Knorr 5c to $1.00 Store 8 Irj ru eana rouury service ; I "We Serve Ycu Better" , Nebraska City Plattsmouth Ijl""' l" """""""""" jrj Ifbismm ' and to. a,1-of yu vlfir J iJyMlmn we extend our wishes ; I ''Z0JjfM a Merry Christ- ; J vYfffH mas and a ysar ' J f yZfm ahead chock full of ' 7 S f3 geed health, happi- nCSS ant PrSPerty jv j f Frady s Garage , " W : Wiyse! Auto Service j, I "Your Studebaker Dealer" . 721 2nd Avo. " , ' V Phcn. 4157 L ( A LITTLE CHRISTMAS NOTE I f- OF CHkk TO YO? , ? f In Virginia, the old Dominion, storied land of early American his tory, there is an old tradition of the origin of the Yule log that Is retold every Christmas. As the family .sits around the Yule log' and sips their Christmas eggnog on Christmas eve, the an cient legend is recounted again. One very cold Christmas eve, when the frosty wind howled across a world of snow, an old man was sitting in his little cabin wishing ! that he had a fire' to warm him. Suddenly be beard the cry of Utile child Mic ay out in the cold. The old man hobbled to the door and gazed out across the snow. The wind and the snow came rustling in and the old man shivered until his "onliest two" teef" chattered with cold. The plaintive cry of. the child came again above the whistle of the wind. It went straight to the old man's heart and he wished with all his power of longing that he might have the strength to go out and find the unfortunate babe. The cry came a third time and then a wondrous thing happened. A miraculous power filled the old man's veins. His muscles became strong and tense, his crutch fell back into the cabin and he stepped from his thresh' old out into the snow. speed he had not owned since boy-1 V, ,J 1 s f i .1 wuu, uy aim oy ne came 10 a little child lying in a snow bank He bent down and touched the child and a great new strength flowed over him. a strength which seemed to give him wings as he sped back to his cabin. Arriving there, he -placed the child upon the bed, tenderly drew the ragged coverlet about it and then looked to see if there were a bit of furniture he could use to make a fire with which to warm the little one. At that precise moment a great log rolled across the threshold and into the fireplace. The little child looked at the log with eyes like stars stars which sent gleams of light that kindled the log with the most brilliant fire the old man ever had seen. The dingy little room immediately was filled with radiance and warmth, and as the light enwrapped the child he laughed and laughed with a mel ody like a song from the heart. The old man turned his eyes to where the fire burned and watched the flames leap in beautiful rainbow tints over the log, and as bis old eyes watched, the colors seemed to form the shape of the Cross in the fire. The flames of the Cross leaped higher and higher, blue, red, yel low and white, and as the old man watched this display, suddenly and magically there appeared a table in the center of the room, covered with a Christmas feast such as never before had been spread be fore his eyes. And never again was the old man hungry or cold, .and never after that was there a Christ mas in old Virginia without the Yule log and the Christmas Child to give light and warmth. And that is the story of the Yule iog as it js told in Virginia every nnsimas eve. The ideal Christmas tree is the fir. because of its tendency to hold us ncecues longer. A final step in trimming the Christmas tree Is tt fluffy snow. A simple and popular form cf snow is ordinary soap iiaKes. r f AND I WANT ... This Is a candid camera-shot of a little girl being interviewed by a genial Santa on the subject of her desires in the line of Christmas presents. The rapt expression on her face is typical of small girl-and-boyhood when a lovely crisis like this pre sents itself. . ; On Christmas While the litter from Christmas packages is still about, be partic ularly careful of smoking. Hot ashes dropped on tissue paper or-a carelessly-tossed, match could re sult in tragedy. December 23 was decreed as the ' date of Christ's nativity by the Koman emperor Julian who began his reign as a Christian, but re- j veiled to paganism before his death. 1 JJ l,iZp TT it h U ' -l fwM M -fx. 4 t r p PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS TREE . . . This was the annual com munity Christmas tree in Washington. D. C, as it blazed with light last year. President Truman, at his home in Independence. Mo., pushed a button to turn on this holiday brilliance by remote control' The White House shows dimly in the background, framed by the tree ..and huge Christmas candles. . ; W2rW!r Sell It Thru "journaMVant Ads. . . SUIacd 8t.i, windaw friim iathrdMl, Charted Fttate, - 1lew IJorh daimi Santa Cfaui to & -3 fa f-rlvate f-topcrlij While the claim may -cause the rest - of America to bristle. New Yorkers insist that Santa Claus is peculiarly New York's own. Net only did he land in Manhattan with the Dutch settlers, they point out, but for almost two hundred years he never took his activities or pres ents out of New York slate. The New Yorkers advance? some interesting points to bolster their contentions. They declare that in the genial company of Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus gradually lost the grim, stern as pect he wore when he arrived with the, Dutch - settlers to the bulging, benevolent mien he now offers. It was in New York, too, they assert, that Santa acquired his reindeer sleigh and his habit of arriving on Christmas instead of on the Dutch St. Nicholas eve (December 5). And thus, in his New York panoply, he fin ally found his way to all parts of the United States, England and even Australia and India. Indeed, as the New Yorkers will tell you. New York, as New Ams terdam in the beginning, was dedi cated to Santa Claus, or St. Nich olas, by its Dutch founders. For Santa Claus or Sinterklaas, as it is sometimes written in Holland is of course only the centurics-old pet name which Dutch children gave to their patron and gift bring er, the good Bishop St. Nicholas. And it is said that the ship which brought the first Dutch children to Manhattan island bore his face as figurehead. From the first, too, his special day of December 6, was set aside with Christmas. Now Vr't Easter and Whitsuntide, as one of the five chief holidays of the new colony, just as it had been in Holland. So, year after year, 'as regularly as St. Nicholas eve came around in New Amsterdam, in Breuckelen (Brooklyn), in Fort Orange (Al bany) and many other hamlets above the icy Hudson, the children in every good Dutch family gatlv ered in expectant circle. For week: beforehand they' had learned their lessons and helped with the miikiiis and churning in" an ageny of good behavior. And now, all ready, they sang their song to Santa Claus. In the midst of the song would come a knocking at the door and in would stride Santa Claus, himself not round and jolly, but solemn and majeslic in trailing robes. In one hand he might have' a basket of presents or a purse, but in the oiher was sure to be a birch rod an awful -warning to a naughty boy. Santa questioned each child in turn about his behavior in the year just past and gave him a pat of approval or a warning shake of the head, as the record indicated. Thon bidding them all look fcr presents in the morning, the good saint sud denly flung. a handful of lolliDons into the room and. in the ensuing scramble, vanished into the night. Then the children set out thoir sabots, or later the great blue yarn stockngs made for the purpose. However he did it and the tale varies in many lands Santa Clans got about, for in the morning over the hearth steaming with waffles and sausages and ether good Dutch fare, were the blue stockings bulz ing with apples, balls, dolls and tops. Kids Get Break GT. PAUI., Minn.(U.R) Parents refused to register their child ren at Prosperity Heights grade school as the city's school year opened. They said the school was a fire hazzard, a rat trap and a disgrace. Norwegian miles are sev?n times as long as. the American mile. Judge Stops Music BOSTON U.R David Caplan can practice the piano to his heart's content but not after 6 p. m. That curfew hour was established by a district court judge after neighbors complain ed that Caplan's piano was pro ducing'nvusic 16 hours a day. . St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome is the largest in the world. Sell It Thru Journal Want Ads. Self It Thru Journal Want Ads. Us May the Christmas bells play their sweetest music to bring you full happiness at Christmas Win. Kief & Son Building Contractors bull in Business I W MUlHfcR J p KNOWS A j MAGIC SONGr il :t SHE SAYS IT KEEPS OUO pANKROLl. STRON6I SHE'S SlMCrlMGr Wt IT THE 1 A, A c n r t IT PAYS TO DEAL AT Dalton's Jjwayina The Stable of Bethlehem did not in any way. resemble the airy por ticos complete with plaster of paris animals and adoring shep herds , so dear to the heart of .modern Christendom. , With comfort increasing through out the western world, the poverty of the Nativity scene simultaneous .ly startles and fascinates us as perhaps Matthew, the publican, was impressed by the story of the Wise Men; and St. Luke, who had been a ship's' doctor and probably knew very little about shepherds, was charmed ". by tha'; shepherds abiding in the field.' There was no room in the inn that night, so Jesus was born in a stable; a plaee of shelter hewn into a rock' ledge of the Judean countryside. It was cold . and dark and damp, , and. Judcan travejers frequently 'put up' in such cavc welcomed rather than disdained joint tenancy with bcast3 , because the .breath of the cattle and the heat of their bodies provided a little warmth, while the guests In side the inn had no heat at all. The cave, which was the birth place of the Sr.iour, is now a grotto beneath Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity; and though fasci nated by the simplicity of the origi nal Nativity scene, Christianity has been unwilling to maintain its pov erty and has covered the entire surface with costly ornamentation. 3 f :o90,'o0 I I GOOD WISH V Swatek Hardware YOUR SKELGAS DEALER 433 Main Plattsmouth ' w mm t3 Stadium was. originally a Creek measure of length, ap proximately 600 feet. Down Town-Motors "Your Hudson Dealer" 125 South 5th Phone 31 19